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Through its constitution, South Africa has declared provision of high-quality education to all citizens is a human right. However, violence, bullying and poverty threaten to impede, if not preclude attainment of this goal. This voice from practice highlights social work interventions that provide psychosocial support to learners to tackle the challenges.

Abstract: In the USA, school social workers play a vital role nurturing a child's social-emotional development in all grade levels. School social workers collaborate with teachers, administrators and parents to provide optimal support for students to remain in school. This paper focuses primarily on how social workers could implement evidence-based social skills programs that maximize the potential of school children's success and engagement in school. When parents and teachers are involved in these interventions, students are more likely to generalize the skills they have learned to a wide range of settings. Future implications indicate that more research should be conducted regarding how school social workers could continue to work effectively with school administrators and parents to achieve positive outcomes for students.

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In 2020, social workers across the world responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent strict lockdown procedures over several months. In many countries, including Australia and New Zealand, this virtual shutdown period necessitated a reframing of social work practice to incorporate factors including delivery of services via virtual means and more limited access for vulnerable clients. This article draws on the integration of two methods designed to address the research question: 'How has social work practice in Australia and New Zealand been affected by COVID-19?' These include (i) a narrative review of papers published during 2020 on social work practice and the COVID-19 pandemic and (ii) an online survey, undertaken from October to December 2020, of Australian and New Zealand social workers. The questionnaire data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and thematic analysis. The findings of this article details include the significant impacts of COVID-19 on practice, the increased needs of clients, including a rise in health issues, violence, homelessness and financial concerns, and the resulting critical changes to social work workloads. Social workers also reported greater use of technologies to deliver services and fears for their families and themselves if exposed to COVID-19.

The article deals with the profession of Caritative social worker, its legitimate status in Latvia, as well with historical roots of the profession and its methodology. It is based on the Judeo-Christian anthropological paradigm and is reflected in European guidelines for Social work development, stemming from the founders' of the European Union concept of the Social stand of man and human dignity as spiritual subject.KEY WORDS: caritative social work, innovation, Judeo-Christian anthropological paradigm, social cohesion.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/tbb.v78i1.1760

Increasing expectations that social work education incorporate international perspectives and prepare graduates to work in cross-national contexts is resulting in schools of social work in different countries collaborating in curriculum development. This article reports on one such collaboration involving four Australian and four European schools of social work which struggled to develop elements of curriculum that could be used by all partners, and identifies issues that international collaborations need to take account of in the planning and implementing of shared curriculum.

""This book facilitates an understanding of diverse social media tools and platforms and their impact on society, business, and the economy and illustrates how online communities can benefit the domains of marketing, finance, and information technology"--Provided by publisher"--

More urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression, and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these conditions, Gil promotes social change strategies rooted in the nonviolent philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He shares suggestions for transition policies intended to alleviate poverty, unemployment, and discrimination and examines modes of radical social work practice compatible

This study aims to determine the extent to which the use of social media has an influence on knowledge sharing, absorption capacity, and collaboration of state civil servants (SCS). This study uses a quantitative descriptive method with a survey method on employees in the Central Java Provincial Government. The results of the study show that the use of social media increases knowledge sharing, absorption capacity, and collaboration in organizations. So it is necessary to strengthen the use of social media in work organizations and make rules for the use of media that can encourage collaboration and organizational performance. The limitation of this research is that this research is carried out on the civil apparatus of the Central Java Province in all parts, in the future it is necessary to conduct research in more specific fields or sections.

In spite of the importance of social justice to the profession of social work, little research exists on the topic, contributing to what some have called a "conceptual muddle." To help clarify the professions understanding of social justice, this study analyzed a representative sample of social justice syllabi ( N=31). To analyze the textual data, keyword, cluster, and linking analyses were preformed. The findings suggest that (a) some groups and issues are highlighted at the expense of others and (b) a four-dimensional conceptualization of social justice may be embedded in course syllabi, implicitly informing professional discourse. The results are discussed in light of recent professional controversies related to social justice.

Every type of organization is driven by the needs of the stakeholders and of the social environment that surrounds them. In particular, organizations need to satisfy requirements deriving both from internal stakeholders. In addition, every activity generates different kind of outcomes, positive or negative, intended or unintended, financial and non-financial: Social Impact can define the sum of all these outcomes, net of the effect of synergies and of what would have happened even in the absence of the activity of the organization. In this framework, on the one hand any organization needs guidelines to maximize this social impact and instruments to assess and evaluate it, in order to embed it in a Rational Management system. On the other hand, governments and local policy makers need to know which kind of impacts, and to what extent, organizations generate, in order to produce regulations, policies and facilitations to promote, foster and reward who produce better for the Society, and vice versa discourage who affects it negatively. Both the researchers and the practitioners have lately produced a vastness of instruments with this purpose, whose usage extension is often limited to single local communities or organizations. This contribution aims to recap all the present reviews made in the scientific literature that tried to classify, cluster and reduce to common factors all the instruments, methodologies and measures, through a meta-review of the existing literature

Critical reflection processes are fundamental to critical social work practice. Nevertheless, these processes have been criticized for lacking a coherent translation to direct professional practice. Existing models of critical reflection culminate in the formulation of critical professional perspectives, leaving the translation of critical perspectives into direct practice underdeveloped. This gap requires attention, specifically in the contemporary context of social services that operate under the hegemony of conservative and neoliberal discourses, which impede critical rationality and practice. Therefore, a nuanced conceptualization of the process that links critical reflection and critical practice is required. This article provides such a conceptualization by describing an undergraduate social work course that used a collaborative inquiry group to explore critical participatory practices. Building on our collaborative inquiry experiences and findings, we portray a process that included critical reflection, direct critical practice, and the development of a critical professional perspective. Based on the conceptual framework of action science, our conceptualization demonstrates how the process of addressing the tension between critical and hegemonic perspectives enables professionals to create critical practice within the hegemonic field. In this way, we provide a theoretical contribution to the construction of critical reflection models and a practical contribution to professional developmental processes that promote critical professionalism.